Champ's Cafe is proud to serve nutritious, restaurant-quality food at the best prices in town. Menus are planned to meet he USDA (United States Dept. of Agriculture) dietary guidelines while offering our customers their favorite delicious foods. Meals can be pre-paid by cash, check, or credit card via www.PayPAMS.com, to your child's personal account to ensure that your child has money to purchase a nutritious breakfast or lunch.
Breakfast: Champ's Cafe offers breakfast each day beginning 30 minutes before the start of school. Several varieties of cereal are offered each day with low fat milk and a choice of juice. Other entree selections include French toast sticks and breakfast sandwiches.
Lunch: Nutritionally balanced lunches are served every day at Champ's Cafe. Elementary schools have four entree choices each day. The choices include chef salad, yogurt, turkey deli-sandwich, and the menu's daily-feature entree. Middle and high school students are offered an even greater variety of choices daily. They include burgers, chicken nuggets, pizza, salads, chicken fillet sandwich and more. Entrees at all schools are complimented with choices of canned or fresh fruits, two servings of vegetables, and low fat milk.
Monthly menus are printed for elementary and middle school students. Menus are also available online (Menu Page) while a brochure featuring the numerous menus offered each day at the high school food courts is distributed at the beginning of the school year. Free and reduced price lunches and breakfasts are provided for those students that qualify (Free and Reduced Page).
Top priority to every Champ's staff member is to help our customers develop life-long habits that promote health through proper nutrition. With research showing the importance of good nutrition for better learning, we at Champ's ask that you encourage your child to select a meal at Champ's Cafe. The food is delicious and the helpful and friendly staff will assist your child to make balanced meal choices. The Champ's staff doesn't think that you can pack a lunch for your child, of comparable quality and nutritional value, for less money. Eating a healthy school breakfast and lunch can contribute to the success of your child's education.
Champ's Cafe uses a computerized system for taking meal payments. Each customer is given a PIN (Personal Identification Number). Payments are accepted before school and at meal service time. When making payments for more than one student account in the same school please indicate the amount to be deposited in each student's account. Make checks payable to "Champ's Cafe" noting PIN and student's name.
Customers can prepay for meal and ala carte items for a week, a month, or more. Payment for meals should be made prior to or at the time of meal service. If a customer does not have enough money for their meal, they should see the manager. Meals must be paid back the very next operating day. The Champ's Cafe budget pays for all salaries and benefits, equipment replacement, food and supplies from the revenues generated.
Statistics:
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Total Breakfasts in 07-08 School Year: 615,342
Total Lunches in 07-08 School Year: 2,247,412
Total Breakfasts in 06-07 School Year: 572,762
Total Lunches in 06-07 School Year: 2,244,024
Recipe for success:
Champ's Cafe employs talented cooks, bakers, general food service workers, assistant managers and managers, as well as a central office purchasing and supervisory staff. If you would like to join the Champ's Cafe team, please contact our office at 941-575-5400 to schedule an interview and click the button below to fill out an online application.
Meal Prices: Breakfasts are $1.00 at all schools. Lunch is $1.90 at elementary schools, and $2.20 at secondary schools. Reduced price breakfasts are $.30, while lunches are $.40, at all schools.
Hope to see you at Champ's Cafe in the 08- 09 school year!
Terri Whitacre
Director, Champ's Cafe